On 28 January, the IMechE launched its report on decarbonising road transport, entitled Accelerating Road Transport Decarbonisation. The report was aimed at highlighting that we cannot rely on electric vehicles alone to solve our climate change challenges and a more holistic approach was required. It was, therefore, ironic that one week later Boris Johnson announced that the ban on the sale of vehicles that use an internal combustion engine as the sole source of propulsion would be brought forward from 2040 to 2035 and would now include hybrid vehicles.
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